Mantic Games have recently released Ancient Grudge, an expansion for their Dwarf King’s Hold line of games. As my copy arrived this morning (two days from order to delivery – nice service from Mantic) I thought that this would be as good a time as any to take a look at the whole line. Lets get one thing out of the way – I like Dwarf King’s Hold (DKH from this point on), as you may have guessed from the fact...

Fat Dragon Games, makers of print & play scenery, have just released their first wargame – Lost Reich. I’ve bought some of their scenery packs before, as the simpler pieces go together quickly and allow you to build attractive battlefields in no time (assuming you’ve got a printer). Of course, looking at the models this looks like a much more complicated cardboard build and I’m always terrified of paper...

Last time saw me take a look through Crooked Dice’s new 7ombieTV rulebook, so it seems only right to follow that up by taking a look at a game in progress. To make things easy I went for a solo mission based on the Cabin in the Woods scenario from the book, but running it with just 100 points of Survivors and the same in Zombies. Set up So much for a quiet weekend at the Lake House… I went for a simple nuclear family style...

An old colleague of mine always said that the only horror movies he couldn’t watch were those involving Zombies – the thought of being eaten by loved ones was just too much for him. Its no surprise that shambling hordes of the recently deceased are such a great subject for gaming. 7ombieTV There are already a fair selection of Zombie games on the market (a topic for another day), but the latest one to make its way onto my...

It’s been fascinating to watch – and be a part of – the recent tabletop gaming renaissance. I was finally bitten hard in late 2010 when I undertook the mighty Arkham Horror, which dragged me straight to the bottom of the lake and I haven’t even tried to get to the surface yet. In fact, I even managed to make a new friend and drag him down with me in the summer of last year and we’ve been gaming partners...